The text is by Sidney Lawrence and George Foy. Lawrence is the Public Affairs officer for the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. A contributor to the Smithsonian News Service, he has also published independently in “Art in America” and is an exhibiting Washington artist. Foy, is an author and journalist, formerly worked for the international Herald Tribune in Paris. George Michelsen Foy is a French-American novelist, essayist, and magazine journalist, and professor of creative writing at NYU. The introduction is written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall, Professor and Director of Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks and member of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University, is a world authority on gardens and their history. Her work has appeared in numerous scholarly publications. The foreword is written by John Train, a new York investment counsellor and an author of eight books on subject ranging from nomenclature to etymology and some two-hundred columns in “The Wall Street Journal”, “Harvard”, “Le Matin”:, “Forbes” and other publications. The four chapters cover “Open-Air Collections”, “Museum Gardens”, “Aristocratic Gardens”, and “Ancient Sculpture Sites”. It includes a geographical index.